One diamond, thirty years
Every fixture on the league's schedule names the same ground: Neilson Park, Scarborough. The league's own description says it plays primarily there, and nothing on the current schedule departs from it.
Thirty years at one park is a permit relationship worth more than any equipment budget, and it is the reason a four-team league can survive on Saturdays.
The Maroons' record shows where the rest of the travelling goes -- Charlottetown, Halifax, Yarmouth, Calgary, Burlington, Hamilton, Welland, Chatham, Mississauga, Walsingham.
A ground attached to each game on a High Cheese schedule matters most the first time one moves, which in this league would be the exception rather than the rule.
Scarborough Vintage Baseball League in detail
- Four teams, thirty-three and over, fifteen Saturdays a year at one park since 1996.
- Saturdays at Neilson Park, eleven o'clock through six, fifteen games a season.
- A standings page for four teams over fifteen games.
- Results are posted against the fixtures as soon as they are played.
- Four clubs — Dodgers, Blue Jays, Marlins and Phillies.
- A statistics section runs alongside the schedule and standings.
- A contact form and a location: Scarborough, Ontario.
- A contact form, and no published fee, deadline or route onto a roster.
- Thirty-three and over, with some exceptions, and nine innings every Saturday.
- The championship table is the news, and it is updated by year.
- No gallery is published.
- No sponsor is named.
- Seventeen national and provincial titles since 2011, from Calgary to Charlottetown.
- Established 1996, with a past champions section and a national record going back to 2011.
- Nobody is named.
- Age, day, ground, season length and game length are all answered; the fee is not.
- No documents are published.
- Fifteen Saturdays plus playoffs, running into late August.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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